On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 21:31 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:21:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > which also gets bonus points for being totally unreadable, and thus 100% > > in the spirit of uuid's. > > Heh. UUID's don't have to be readable; just universally unique. Code > on the other hand should be readable. :-) > > If you want something more readable, you could print the MAC address > and boot time. Of course some crazy people seem to think leaking the > MAC address will somehow be a privacy violation. And printing a > random UUID is a lot simpler....
Printing a random UUID is necessary, for now anyway, because you cannot assume every machine is going to have a MAC address, even if it is deemed appropriate to print this on oops. The Network is the Computer! Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
